The Rime of the Ancient Candidate The Rime of the Ancient Candidate
A home in every port.
Aug 27, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
And We Love Life And We Love Life
And we love life if we find a way to it. We dance in between martyrs and raise a minaret for violet or palm trees. We love life if we find a way to it. And we steal from the silkwo…
Aug 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mahmoud Darwish
Remember Katrina? Remember Katrina?
A quick hypothetical: if a Democratic president had allowed, say, all of Connecticut to flood and done nothing but strum a guitar and look out the window while it happened, do you...
Aug 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Have Pantsuit, Will Travel Have Pantsuit, Will Travel
Hillary's signature attire is one phase in women's power-dressing; Michelle's sheath is another. But the shoes...
Aug 27, 2008 / Patricia J. Williams
Dream Will Never Die Dream Will Never Die
Just a quick thought: It occurred to me that if Hillary Clinton had delivered word for word the same speech that Teddy Kennedy did in 1980, his famous, justly praised "The Dream W...
Aug 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Taking On Poverty and Inequality Taking On Poverty and Inequality
The theme at the Democratic Convention in Denver yesterday was "RenewingAmerica's Promise"--the Democrats' plan to grow the economy andrestore fairness so that it works for all o...
Aug 27, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
US Massacres Afghan Kids US Massacres Afghan Kids
So how, exactly, did the United States come to slaughter nearly a hundred Afghans, two-thirds of whom were children aged three months to sixteen years, while they slept? And what ...
Aug 27, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Nation’s Victor Navasky on Democratic Conventions Past and The Nation’s Victor Navasky on Democratic Conventions Past and
The Nation's Publisher Emeritus reflects on every convention since 1956--and ahead to Obama's historic moment.
Aug 27, 2008 / The Nation Video and Brett Story
Famous in Japan Famous in Japan
Standing in line outside the Pepsi Center last night, sandwiched in between a group of rowdy lobbyists from Tennessee and what appeared to be the boys choir of Minnesota, the thou...
Aug 27, 2008 / Richard Kim
Mixed Feelings at the DNC Mixed Feelings at the DNC
There was caution as well as exuberance at the Democratic Convention Monday night. First the exuberance - the place was packed to the brim. The first thing I heard when I reached t...
Aug 27, 2008 / Laura Flanders